At this year’s AAR Annual Meeting in Atlanta (November 21-24) the official REA session (P21-403) will be moderated by Kathy Winings, our current Chair of the Standing Committee for Religious Education in Faith Communities. Titled “Valuing the Teaching of Religion: Connecting, Disrupting, Transforming Power,” the session will feature Judith Bishop of Mills College (recipient of the AAR’s 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award), Andre E. Johnson of Memphis Theological Seminary, and REA’s members Boyung Lee and Sarah Tauber. This session is scheduled for Saturday evening, beginning at 6:30 pm in the Hyatt International North (International Tower Level LL1).
Further evidence of dynamic cross-disciplinary conversation is a session sponsored by the Association of Practical Theology at AAR (P20-216), to which REA members Virginia Lee, Reginald Blount, Leah Gunning Francis, and Mai-Anh Le Tran will contribute as panelists. This session will take place on Friday at 3 pm, in Marriott M101.
In addition to our REA session and the APT session, there are also several REA members who are participating in various ways. Here’s the list we have so far — if you know of other people, please let us know and we’ll update this list!
- Ilsup Ahn (A22-120, A23-227)
- Amy Allen (S23-113)
- Reginald Blount (P20-216)
- Elizabeth Conde-Frazier (P20-206a, A22-107/)
- Kathy Dawson (S21-248)
- Courtney Goto (A22-214)
- Leah Gunning Francis (P20-216)
- Christine Hong (A23-127)
- Kimberly Humphrey (A22-321)
- Boyung Lee (P20-216, P21-403, A23-306)
- Virginia Lee (P20-216)
- Lakisha Lockhart (A23-239)
- Chris Miller (M20-100)
- Susan Reynolds (A21-243)
- Nathaniel Samuel (A21-135)
- Anthony Sweat (S23-301)
- Najeeba Syeed-Miller (A21-137, A21-312, A22-103)
- Sarah Tauber (P21-403)
- Katherine Turpin (A21-237, A23-304)
- Michael Waggoner (A21-237)
- Tamar Wasoian (A23-330)
- Kathy Winings (P21-403)